Find Resumes

List your key words out in a row and/or add the elements

KW1 KW2 KW3 inurl:~resume

KW1 KW2 KW3 intitle:~resume

KW1 KW2 KW3 ~resume ~job

KW1 KW2 KW3 ~resume ~ext:htm

KW1 KW2 KW3 ~resume ~ext:html

KW1 KW2 KW3 ~resume ~jobs

KW1 KW2 KW3 (~resume|~rèsumè|~CV|~Vitae)

KW1 KW2 KW3 ~intitle:~job

KW1 KW2 KW3 ~intitle:~jobs

Personal Home Pages

KW1 intitle:favorites

KW1 KW2 KW3 intitle:~favorites

KW1 KW2 KW3 inurl:~favorites

KW1 KW2 KW3 site:members.aol.com ~CV

You can use a replacement for “aol.com” for other personal
home pages in browsers or social media with endings of .com

Employee Home Pages

Site:members.aol.com KW1

KW1 KW2 intext:KW1 ~site:KW4

KW1 KW2 intext:KW3 contact=me

Site:ISPdomain.com *@companydomain.com

KW1 KW2 intext:CompanyDomain.com ~site:CompanyDomain.com

Inurl:msgid 

Inurl:”TargetCompany’s
IP Address”

Associations

Association contact=me 

Site:AssociationURL.com (chair, agenda, keynote)

Filetype:doc

Filetype:PPT

Intitle:Member

Conferences

“I spoke at” “Conference Name” Year

(“I attended” OR “I was at” OR “I went to”) “Conference
Name” Year

site:ConferenceURL.com speakers

site:ConferenceURL.com presentations

Alumni

“Company Name” (directory)

“Company Name” (contact)

inurl:alumni

intitle:alumni

KW1 KW2 site:edu ~resume

KW1 KW2 worked contact=me

Intext:KW1 my=job ~contact

~contact
(@KW1|intext:KW1)

inurl:alumni

intitle:alumni

Mailing List Archives

KW1 KW2 archive inurl:list OR inurl:mail OR intitle:Mail

KW1 KW2 (index=*=mail) (index=*=archive)

KW1 KW2 thread index

KW1 KW2 inurl:msgid

KW1 KW2 +to +from +subject date sender

KW1 KW2 outofoffice OR
out=*=office  OR thread|list|index

Website Content

Site:KW1 KW2

Site:KW1 KW2 filetype:ppt

Site:KW1 KW2 filetype:doc

Site:KW1 KW2 filetype:pdf

Blogs

KW1 KW2 KW3 (inurl:~blog) (intitle:~blog)

KW1 KW2 KW3 site:blogspot.com (try replacing the popular
blog hosts with blogs.msdn.com, livejournal.com, myspace.com,
spaces.love.com, 360.yahoo.com, typepad.com, wordpress.com, Technorati.com, xanga.com,
weblogs.com, and weblogger.com – you can only search one blog site at a
time, not multiples

Google Groups

KW1 insubject:RE
Group:*KeyWord2* (finds discussions)

KW1 insubject:resume                         (finds
actual resumes)

KW1 author:@companydomain.com   (finds posted co. messages)

Wild Cards

“~” tilde

~resume       finds
synonyms, related words, fuzzy search, plurals,

CV, Vitae, Curriculum Vitae, etc.

~software      software,
drivers, applications, shareware, etc.

~job                eliminates
pages that don’t mention jobs, employment, career, etc.

* (word wildcard)     placeholder
for any word, use in multiples,

=*=                  for
instance, software=*=engineer finds software design engineers, software test
engineer, etc.

Number Range

30002…31999

Find a range of zip codes or area codes within a range

EX:
product=*+manager intitle:resume 30002…31999

Links

Link:www.mit.edu   finds people with links on their
pages back to their institution, suppliers, (can not be used with an “ANY”
Boolean searches or with special commands)

Site

Site:www.anywebsite.com            displays
resumes within a specific URL

Ex:
site:www.mit.edu ~resume
<-will find MIT domain resumes

Groups

Insubject:resume   displays news group messages
with subject word resume

Group:GroupName  displays news group messages from a
specific group

Author:Name     displayes
news group messages from one particular author  (Ex: author:@companydomain.com) shows
only messages posted by people at that company

Web Alerts

https://www.google.com/alerts

Enter search terms and your email address to get regular
alerts

Finds different
kinds of docs that aren’t just HTML – Can Not
be replaced with ‘ext’, e.g., ext:doc
or ext:rtf, etc.

File Types

Filetype:doc

Filetype:rtf

Filetype:pdf

Filetype:ppt

Filetype:xls

Filetype:txt

When you open the doc, look at the file properties to see
what secrets that document section gives up!